Tariff hikes

China will raise tariffs on part of US$60 billion worth of U.S. goods from June 1, announced the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council in a statement issued on Monday.

China has decided to impose tariffs of 25 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent on certain U.S. products starting June 1, the statement said, adding that the products under a 5-percent tariff cap would not be affected by this round of tariff hikes. Some 2,493 goods will see levies raised to 25 percent. The hike was made after the United States announced to increase tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods, which took effect Friday.

Winged dinosaur fossil

Scientists have found the remains of a bizarre Jurassic* dinosaur with membranous* wings, showing a strange but unsuccessful attempt to fly in the evolution process from dinosaur to bird.

The well-preserved fossil, discovered in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, dates back 163 million years and belongs to a new species of Jurassic nonavian theropod dinosaur* with associated feathers and membranous tissues.

Tourists fined

Three tourists were each fined 5,000 yuan (US$737) for illegally crossing a State nature reserve in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Thursday.

According to police with Amdo County in the city of Nagqu, the tourists avoided checkpoints set up by forest police and entered the core zone of Changtang National Nature Reserve, China’s biggest and highest reserve.

Overseas study

Chinese students are increasingly diversifying their choices of destinations for overseas studies, with more students choosing to go to the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, a new report shows.

In a multiple choice survey for the annual report, released last week, while the United States remains the most popular destination for overseas study this year, preferred by 43 percent of the respondents, this was down by 8 percentage points compared with 2015. U.S. dominance looks uncertain as the number of students inclined to study in the United Kingdom rose sharply in 2019. (SD-Agencies)